News sites immune to affiliate UK regulations

[wonderpunter]

So as we all know pretty much anything UK gambling related requires some kind of link and disclaimer posted all over the place, however now google has started to favor low value non authorty basic content being pumped out by news sites, pretty much globally and all ranking within the top 10.. here are some examples from the top 10 uk which they dominate ... i wonder if the uk gambling commision is in agreement ?

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...bling-uk-2021/
https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/th...layers-3372618
https://news.cision.com/superlenny/r...-more,c3430487

These are just a few.. also no mention if they are sponsored or that this is the opinion of the news sites on a couple..

[chaumi]

Cision has been all over with multiple high value keywords (dozens at least, maybe hundreds, potentially thousands) for at least a month, maybe two or more. Multiple geos, niches.

Pure trickery of some sort by the look of it, haven't been able to work it out. But could be it's solely on the authority behind Cision (and they're using content lifted off existing high authority sites, sometimes more than one and combining the content on the page).

The other 2 (I think) are different, likely Google falling back into 'let's put 'news' releases up as the best results for searchers' mode again.

I wouldn't put it past there being some PBN backlinks manipulation across the board though (for all of these)

[Mattbar]

Google has been massively favouring high authority news sites since the December 2020 update, see it across the board.

[wonderpunter]

Google has been massively favouring high authority news sites since the December 2020 update, see it across the board.

Yes but now its becoming the place to go.. crummy one page bit of bad written text, + aff links, goes to show the AI is not on at all, its like revenge of the cookie cutter sites but on single pages hosted on top news sites, do they not have any quality control there?

[chaumi]

Yes but now its becoming the place to go.. crummy one page bit of bad written text, + aff links, goes to show the AI is not on at all, its like revenge of the cookie cutter sites but on single pages hosted on top news sites, do they not have any quality control there?

No one is looking, 'just' a robot that does what it's been told to do, and the instructions are not good enough.

[Mattbar]

Google doesn't care whether the page is compliant and has warnings. That is up to the operators and the regulators. You could report them to the ASA or to the programs themselves, but ultimately it won't change anything in terms of their ability to rank sh**ty pages based on their overall authority.

The dials will be turned back at some point I think as surely there is a lot of bounce with these generic news sites ranking for specific terms.

[freespinsnodeposit]

It's frustrating as these news sites are super slow but still being rewarded just because of the authority of the site. This is the first time seeing Super Lenny (GIG Media) doing this. At least Better Collective teamed up with the Telegraph (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/betting/) to create decent content for readers, not just chuck up a one page and some links on a press release platform.

[Mattbar]

It's frustrating as these news sites are super slow but still being rewarded just because of the authority of the site. This is the first time seeing Super Lenny (GIG Media) doing this. At least Better Collective teamed up with the Telegraph (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/betting/) to create decent content for readers, not just chuck up a one page and some links on a press release platform.

Even the Telegraph is poor though, best this and best that and a load of tips basically.

Think of it from their perspective, if you had their link profile and authority and you knew you could make a load of money with thin scammy keyword heavy pages you would.

[freespinsnodeposit]

Think of it from their perspective, if you had their link profile and authority and you knew you could make a load of money with thin scammy keyword heavy pages you would.

Yeah, you're right there.

[CharlesNoble]

I guess that the Domain Authority is the most valuable thing for ranking today, along with the content of course. Then again, the older the domain the better of course.

[PROFRBcom]

I have noticed on a few KW that I loosely follow, that these types of sites, while still on page 1, are now under rank 5.

Anyone else notice any positive changes, i.e. these parasite pages being removed from top 3 rankings?